Abigail Disney Quotes

There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

I'm always super scared of feeling like a fake.

I never think I'm safe. I always live in fear I will lose.

I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen to you, I'll feel better.

No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.